Richard William Benet Salway is a senior lecturer in ancient history at University College London.
He was part-time tutor in Ancient History at St Anne's College, Oxford and part-time lecturer in Classics at the University of Reading 1993–94 and temporary lecturer in Ancient History at the University of Manchester 1994–95.
He was also secretary of the British Epigraphy Society 1999–2004 and a member of the Council of the Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies 2002–05 and has been a member of the Institute of Classical Studies Library Committee since 2001 and Finance Committee since 2008.
[3] In 2010 the Volterra database was used by Corcoran and Salway to identify previously unknown fragments of the Gregorian Code.
The "Fragmenta Londiniensia" are seventeen pieces of parchment estimated to date from AD400, the document having been cut up and re-used as book-binding material.